1853 - INDIAN RACES OF N. & S. AMERICA, 1st/1st C. BROWNELL - COLORED ENGRAVINGS

  INDIAN RACES OF NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA: An Account of the Principal Aboriginal Races; A Description of Their National Customs, Mythology, and Religious Ceremonies; The History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, and of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; and A Great Variety of Anecdotes and Descriptions — By Charles De Wolfe Brownell — 1st Edition/1st Printing, 1853 —Native Americans, Hand-Colored Engravings

 Publisher H.E. and S.S. Scranton, New York (1853)

 Engraved leather boards with gilt decorations on spine. Beautiful hand-colored engravings throughout the book's 640 pages. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for some shelfwear and wear to leather. The pages are crisp and clean save for a few spots of sporadic foxing. The book has a large number of full-page, hand-colored illustrations from early American artists. A Description of Their National Customs, Mythology and Religious Ceremonies; The History of Their Most Powerful Tribes, And Of Their Most Celebrated Chiefs and Warriors; Their Intercourse and Wars with the European Settlers; And a Great Variety of Anecdote and Description, Illustrative of Personal and Rational Character. A beautiful book describing the world of North and South Native American cultures, from a mid-19th century perspective.